Common questions about Leeds Diocesan Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Leeds Diocesan Trust a good charity? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust scores 82 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 90% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Leeds Diocesan Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Leeds Diocesan Trust as a registered charity (charity number 249404). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=249404&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Leeds Diocesan Trust's charity number? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust's charity number is 249404. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Leeds Diocesan Trust's charity rating? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust scores 82 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Leeds Diocesan Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Leeds Diocesan Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Leeds Diocesan Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 90% of Leeds Diocesan Trust's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Leeds Diocesan Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 10% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 10% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Leeds Diocesan Trust. Leeds Diocesan Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Leeds Diocesan Trust receive? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust reported £13m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Leeds Diocesan Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-08-15). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Leeds Diocesan Trust based? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust's registered contact address is in Leeds (LS6 2BX). It tells the regulator it operates in Leeds City, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, with a focus on religion.
How much is Leeds Diocesan Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Leeds Diocesan Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Leeds Diocesan Trust's money come from? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust reported £13m total income for the year ending 31 March 2026. The largest sources were donations and legacies £9.5m (71%), trading and fundraising events £2.2m (16%), charitable activities £1.2m (9%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £687k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Leeds Diocesan Trust? +
The register records Leeds Diocesan Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Leeds Diocesan Trust's trustees paid? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Leeds Diocesan Trust registered as a charity? +
Leeds Diocesan Trust was entered on the register on 12 September 1966. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02886244).
How does CharityCompare score Leeds Diocesan Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Leeds Diocesan Trust's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Leeds Diocesan Trust's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.